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Not trying to drum up any controversy and I fully admit it is a small sample size. As someone who falls in the demographic "Under 30 and Living in a Metropolit

Not trying to drum up any controversy and I fully admit it is a small sample size. As someone who falls in the demographic "Under 30 and Living in a Metropolitan City" I feel comfortable sharing some of my own personal and my friends experiences in their particular office as well. The dominant news story has always been the story women earn 80 percent less than men, but that was difficult to reconcile compared to what I was seeing in my work life. This article backed up some of those points. If you are looking for hard data to back up what I experienced, the article posted here is a perfect source.

freehunter 9y ago
I wasn't accusing you of trying to drum up controversy, I was accusing PunchTornado of doing that. They were the one trying to force you to extrapolate your limited experience to the entire population and then use that strawman for target practice.
- PunchTornado 9y ago
  Well, way say it then if you don't want to generalise it and give an explanation for the findings in the article. However you put it, your comment says that it may be that women in their 20s are more organized because in my company I observed this. If this statement is ok with you then fine, but it wouldn't be ok to say it loudly in some companies.
brianmcc 9y ago
Don't worry your intent was clear - some people simply read what they want/expect to read, but some of us are still able to recognise a personal observation. Funny: reading HN comments I increasingly get the feeling a lot of folks aren't correctly reading or comprehending what's been written. Whether it's deliberate to support a strawman or a result of reading too quickly or something else I don't know but I often read a response and notice "hang on, that's really NOT what OP was saying...".
- ShadowFaxSam 8y ago
  Thank you for this. I couldn't agree more with this in regards to some comments here. Especially when people share personal observations on a study that includes data, yet people cry "small sample size!". Of course its a small sample size, it's a personal experience of one.

freehunter 9y ago

I wasn't accusing you of trying to drum up controversy, I was accusing PunchTornado of doing that. They were the one trying to force you to extrapolate your limited experience to the entire population and then use that strawman for target practice.

PunchTornado 9y ago
Well, way say it then if you don't want to generalise it and give an explanation for the findings in the article. However you put it, your comment says that it may be that women in their 20s are more organized because in my company I observed this. If this statement is ok with you then fine, but it wouldn't be ok to say it loudly in some companies.

brianmcc 9y ago

Don't worry your intent was clear - some people simply read what they want/expect to read, but some of us are still able to recognise a personal observation. Funny: reading HN comments I increasingly get the feeling a lot of folks aren't correctly reading or comprehending what's been written. Whether it's deliberate to support a strawman or a result of reading too quickly or something else I don't know but I often read a response and notice "hang on, that's really NOT what OP was saying...".

ShadowFaxSam 8y ago
Thank you for this. I couldn't agree more with this in regards to some comments here. Especially when people share personal observations on a study that includes data, yet people cry "small sample size!". Of course its a small sample size, it's a personal experience of one.